And that has meant this family feud over a house has become a matter of national concern. His office referred NPR to a 2017 statement, in which he states his belief is his father was open to renovating the property for his sister to live in. SHENGWU LI: But, you know, my uncle being the prime minister of Singapore, he has other ways to get his way.įENG: That uncle, Lee Hsien Loong, has been prime minister since 2004. However, he says his uncle is opposed to tearing the house down. The younger Li is now an economics professor at Harvard. One of the proponents of knocking the colonial-style house down, per the will, is the father of Shengwu Li. I have seen other houses - Nehru's, Shakespeare - and it's a shambles after a while.įENG: Lee also wrote this in his will before his death in 2015. ![]() LEE KUAN YEW: I told the cabinet, when I'm dead, demolish it. ![]() ![]() NPR's Emily Feng reports.ĮMILY FENG, BYLINE: Singapore's founding father, Lee Kuan Yew, was clear about what he wanted to see happen to his house, located on a leafy street of the Southeast Asian city-state. And it's also one that has exposed the cracks in Singapore's carefully crafted democratic narrative. Ever since, his children have been fighting over the family home, and it's a conflict that shows no signs of ending. It's been eight years since Singapore's founding father Lee Kuan Yew died.
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